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Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · London, Macmillan · leaf 53
OF LEAD COFFINS SECT. VII.] 41 the site of the discovery of most of these coffins of early Christian date. The coffins found in England are not so much Roman as strictly Anglo-Roman, for far more have been found here than in any other country, such as have been found in France are near our shores… … Fig. 15. — Onianieiils from early Christian Coffins, Constantinople. which is not represented abroad. The compari- son can best be made in a little book by the learned archaeologist Abbe Cochet of Rouen, Les Cercueils de Plomb (1871), in which the examples found in France are figured. These English…
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